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N. America's biggest fish slips toward extinction
By: yahoo.comPosted On: 12/19/2009 2:38 P
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As efforts falter to save North America's largest freshwater fish, a toothless beast left over from the days of dinosaurs, officials hope to stave off extinction by sending more water hurtling down a river so the fish can spawn in the wild.
As efforts falter to save North America's largest freshwater fish, a toothless beast left over from the days of dinosaurs, officials hope to stave off extinction by sending more water hurtling down a river so the fish can spawn in the wild.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday declared that attempts over the past two years to save the endangered Kootenai River white sturgeon had failed.
The prehistoric sturgeon, characterized by its large head and armor-like scales, can reach 19 feet long and top 1,000 pounds.
An isolated population of the species lives along a stretch of the Kootenai that passes through Montana, northern Idaho and southern British Columbia. Fewer than 500 of the bottom-feeding behemoths survive
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